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Mark Zuckerberg Wins Approval For His First-Ever Patent Application - From 6 Years Ago

ReadWriteStart

How about approval of his very first patent request from way back in 2006 - covering privacy issues no less? But Colleen Chien, IP expert and law professor at Santa Clara University, said Facebook "needs all the patents it can get, especially now after (its battle) with Yahoo.". What could possibly top all that? The patent is broad.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. For example, it answers questions like these: - When will the last magnetic platter hard drive be manufactured?

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Zayo Group – One of Boulder’s Amazing Startup Stories

Feld Thoughts

In late 2006, Zayo was a pure start-up headquartered behind Nick and Willy’s on 8th and Pearl. In June of 2006, we sold what remained of ICG Communications to Level 3. First, many fiber networks had consolidated into a handful of platform. ” This is the first. The ICG team went to Level 3 as part of the transaction.

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Mark Zuckerberg Wins Approval For His First-Ever Patent Application - From 6 Years Ago

ReadWriteStart

How about approval of his very first patent request from way back in 2006 - covering privacy issues no less? But at least one IP expert said Facebook needs all the patents it can get. Zuckerberg filed the application back in July 2006, the year he turned 22. What could possibly top all that? The patent is broad.

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Transcript of Creating a Winning SEO Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

In other words, if you’re trying to check on results and track results, sometimes it’s a little challenging if your IP address is in Kansas City, Missouri. I’ve done blog networks and whatever. I think they’re going to start rolling out features to make that a social network. Brian Dean: Yeah, exactly.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

He joined Oversee in 2006 as Executive Vice President respon sible for DomainSponsor, the company’s industry-leading traffic monetization business. As a business and civic leader, Mr. Geleerd has presented publicly at numerous conferences, universities and television interviews on network and cable channels in the US and Canada.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match. The company has no public URL yet.